AM 1690′s resident jazz expert Dr. Gordon Vernick admits that even he often wonders, “What is Jazz?” This cultural medium, changing across periods and regions, is hard to put a finger on. In fact, as Dr. Vernick suggests, perhaps the only constant in jazz music is its ever-changing nature. In this episode of jazz Insights, Dr. Vernick takes the listener through a journey of the varied formulas for playing different types of jazz, from bebop to the 1960′s jazz fusions, to the role that improvisation plays and the way in which jazz and culture evolve hand-in-hand.

Jazz Insights - What is Jazz?